DIJON Not permitted in SOWPODS
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Why is DIJON not permitted...I know it's a place in France but it is also an adjective - DIJON mustard!
We have Burgundy wine and burgundy is acceptable in SOWPODS - why not DIJON
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@rowdy3112 Please refer to this link: https://forum.lexulous.com/topic/30/recommend-addition-removal-of-words?_=1647838562225
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@rowdy3112 burgundy is acceptable because it's a color.
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@dan Yes Dan, the colour of wine from Burgundy
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@rowdy3112
DIJON mustard is named for the city and is still a proper noun.
Burgundy has lost it's properness!
I bet the French would be mad that champagne is valid and I bet the Italians would be mad that Asti is not since it means it is less popular. Am I muddying this up with wines? Haha
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@rowdy3112 When talking about the wine or mustard, they're always capitalized as Burgundy and Dijon.
@anexparrot champagne is valid because it's also a color. The wine should still be capitalized as Champagne.
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@dan said in DIJON Not permitted in SOWPODS:
The wine should still be capitalized as Champagne.
That's nonsense. If you can provide one source that supports that, I can provide a thousand that don't.
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@roymccoy True.
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Anybody, can it really be said that SOWPODS is still the British Scrabble Dictionary (and hence Lexulous) when the criteria is the word's existence in Collins Dictionary -- or is SOWPODS now a clone of Collins' CSW (Collins Scrabble Words)?
("The 'word' SOWPODS is an acronym of OSPD and OWS (Although the two source dictionaries have now changed their respective titles the term SOWPODS is still used by tournament players to refer to the combination of the two sources. There has not been any actual hard-copy list produced called SOWPODS, although the current Collins Scrabble Words, or CSW, is in effect the full SOWPODS list by a different name." https://findwords.info/term/sowpods )
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I have a copy of the SOWPODS, but it is from 1998 or so and not a true reflection of the hodgepodge currently in effect.
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@anexparrot said in DIJON Not permitted in SOWPODS:
I bet the French would be mad that champagne is valid and I bet the Italians would be mad that Asti is not since it means it is less popular. Am I muddying this up with wines? Haha
No, you are showing the inconsistency of a supposedly consistent word list. -
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@jrp32 we all love wine!
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@terrijay we do not all love wine but we can tell when it is consumed by others